'totaly raped' as opposed to just a likle bit. i do hope the jury see this woman's exagerations for what they are, he was probaly thinking i'm onto a good thing here, she flipped, he went home as he said and from the point of some base ball bat wielding maniac out side his house right upto her display of self control in court has been shitting himself because the system is fucked and will continue to support this type of scumm. a definite case of your guilty now prove your innocence.

Rob is about right. The interesting thing here is we seem to be crediting people in these circumstances with 'credibility' even when pissed and drugged-up - yet not in other areas of law where one's credibility is dismissed by doing stuff like telling the truth. Maybe we are just going back to the Oracle at Delphi and relying on pissed and drugged women to reveal us the truth? Soon, men will be asked their star signs - those answering 'Taurus' being doomed once the jury gets wind of the phrase 'goes at it like a bull'!

Julia finds these stories on a regular basis. I've found some with apparent forensic 'evidence' as shaky as that of cheap cider drinkers. Our prosecution and court system are bent by clown whim.

4000 x 0.075 = 300mL or 30 units. Phew. In theory, that's enough to put you at about 7-10 times the driving limit. Not far from a fatal dose for some, if it stayed down.

I reckon it would be just about do-able for one person in an evening, if they had a good tolerance to alcohol. And drinkers of Frosty Jacks tend not to be, ahem, unused to drink. She was sharing it too. We are still talking about degrees of utterly pissed.

These kind of cases, when the parties involved are drunk, are always going to be a nightmare for a system of justice. If it boils down to one unreliable word against another, how can there be a satisfactory outcome?

"...i do hope the jury see this woman's exagerations for what they are..."

I would rather put my faith in the jury than a magistrate. Perhaps that'll be the next bonkers suggestion? No juries for rape cases?

"The interesting thing here is we seem to be crediting people in these circumstances with 'credibility' even when pissed and drugged-up - yet not in other areas of law where one's credibility is dismissed by doing stuff like telling the truth. "

Spot on!

"These kind of cases, when the parties involved are drunk, are always going to be a nightmare for a system of justice. If it boils down to one unreliable word against another, how can there be a satisfactory outcome?"

300ml of ethanol in an evening is indeed approaching danger levels. It's the alcohol content of a whole bottle of whisky. 400ml will almost certainly kill someone who isn't used to drinking such huge quantities.